The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as a “criminal assault” carried out by an Israeli patrol that infiltrated the town of Beit Jinn (a town in the southwestern countryside of Damascus, near the occupied Syrian Golan Heights), attacking civilians and their property.
In a statement issued today, Friday 28 November, the ministry said Syria condemns “the criminal and flagrant assault” that led to direct clashes after residents of the town confronted the attacking patrol and forced it to withdraw from Syrian territory.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates added that after the failure of this incursion, the occupation forces went on to target the town of Beit Jinn with what it called “brutal and deliberate shelling that constitutes a full-fledged war crime,” after the Israeli forces “committed a horrific massacre” that claimed the lives of more than ten civilians, including women and children, and caused a large displacement movement as a result of the continued “barbaric and deliberate” shelling of the homes of civilians, according to the statement.
Thirteen civilians killed and displacement
Thirteen civilians, including women and children, were killed and 11 others injured in Israeli army shelling of the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside at dawn today, Friday.
According to what activist Fahd Mohammad told Enab Baladi, the shelling came after an Israeli army incursion into the town to arrest a number of young men, which led to clashes between local youths and the Israeli army, which announced that six of its soldiers had been injured.
The Foreign Ministry held the “Israeli occupation authorities” fully responsible for this “dangerous aggression” and its resulting casualties and destruction, considering that the continuation of these “criminal attacks” threatens security and stability in the region and comes within the framework of “a systematic policy to destabilize conditions and impose an aggressive reality by force.”
The ministry renewed its call on the UN Security Council, the United Nations, and the Arab League to “act urgently to put an end to the policy of aggression and repeated violations carried out by the Israeli occupation against the Syrian people,” and to take deterrent measures that ensure respect for international law, the UN Charter, and Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
It stressed that Syria would continue to exercise its legitimate right to defend its land and people by all means recognized under international law, adding that “these crimes will only increase its attachment to its rights, sovereignty, and rejection of all forms of occupation and aggression.”
At present, Beit Jinn is witnessing a movement of displacement toward neighboring towns, amid intensive flights by Israeli drones over the town, while some of the wounded remain trapped under rubble caused by the shelling, according to what activist Fahd Mohammad told Enab Baladi.
The director of Damascus Countryside Health, Tawfiq Hassaba, announced that the death toll from the Israeli shelling on Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside had risen to 13, according to the official Syrian news agency (SANA).
According to SANA, Syrian Civil Defense teams and two ambulances from the Damascus Countryside Health Directorate entered the town of Beit Jinn to transport the bodies and evacuate those injured by the Israeli shelling, after waiting for a long time on the outskirts of the town.
The newspaper Times of Israel reported that the wounded on the Israeli army side include two officers and a reservist who were seriously injured, another reservist who was moderately wounded, and two reservists who sustained light injuries.
In a statement, the Israeli army said that forces from the 55th Reserve Brigade were carrying out an arrest operation targeting a number of what it called “suspects from an Islamist group” active in the village of Beit Jinn in southern Syria.
The army considered that the suspects were promoting “terror plots against citizens of the State of Israel.”
Civilians killed and wounded in Israeli strike on Beit Jinn in southern Syria
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